This Friday, November 7, President Claudia Sheinbaum The flag was given to start work on the Arroyo El Sauz-Nuevo Laredo section of the Gulf of Mexico train.
“We are going to give the starting signal for another part of the Saltillo-Nuevo Laredo railway and we are going to view it from here from ‘La Mañanera’“said the President from the National Palace.
The head of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), Jesús Antonio Esteva Medinahighlighted that this start-up of the work on the Arroyo El Sauz-Nuevo Laredo of the Gulf of Mexico train occurs within the framework of Railway Day, which is celebrated every November 7.
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For its part, the head of the Railway Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF) of the SICT, Andrés Lajous Loaezahe remembered that The Gulf of Mexico train will have travel times to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, of less than two hours from Monterrey, Nuevo León, and three and a half hours from Saltillo, Coahuila.
He detailed that the Arroyo El Sauz-Nuevo Laredo section of the Gulf of Mexico train will have 136.48 kilometers (km) of single trackwill have 52 railway bridges, 42 vehicular steps y 108 drainage works. Two low demand stations will be built in Lampazos de Naranjo and Anáhuac, as well as a passenger station at the Nuevo Laredo terminal.
The official also highlighted that, a few months ago, work began to free up the additional right of way, work is being done on clearing and clearing the land for the construction of the embankments.
The governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal Anayacelebrated that the Gulf of Mexico train represents a vision of the President’s future, which will unite communities and families, in addition to contributing to the consolidation of the Nuevo Laredo border as the main one in Latin America.
During the presentation of this new construction in Mexico, it was announced that this work will generate 10,922 direct jobs and 32,766 indirect jobs.
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